I’m watching an email thread zip past my inbox today with puzzled amusement.
We use Watchguard firewalls and while I have some limited experience with futzing with their rulesets and adding vpn accounts and so forth, I didn’t know about this gem of a ‘feature’.
Apparently when you get a new Watchguard, it is just hardware.
No OS.
One must download and install an OS onto it.
Okayyy…..
Where else can you buy a hardware appliance and not be able to use it out of the box, essentially leaving you with a brick because the unit can not be flashed with an OS unless you have a valid LiveSecurity license for this particular instance of the hardware.
WTF?
Apparently our account at WatchGuard was all fubar. They normally make sure they make the license available online at the time the hardware was purchased and shipped to you.
All good now… other than the usual fighting with firewall rulesets, vpn tunnels, subnets and other network nastiness.
trever
April 11th, 2007